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spends approx 2/3 of the cost of humanities projects on building ...
Project Bamboo in Oxford Terena EMC2 29 Jun 2011
Outline ●
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Background ●
VRE projects
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Bamboo Planning Project
Bamboo Technology Project ●
What the project as a whole are up to
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What we're doing in Oxford
Building a VRE for the Humanities ●
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JISC Virtual Research Environment programme (2005) Requirements for an Institutional VRE for the Humanities in Oxford Capturing user requirements from researchers across the division How do the Humanities differ from large scale Science? No predefined technology
A VRE for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts ●
JISC VRE2 programme (2007 – 2009)
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Narrows focus down to specific group
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Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
VRE aims
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Support Collaboration ●
as if a group of scholars sitting round the table
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works in a web browser
An example application: The Frisian Ox?
Frisian tablet. Original transcription by C.W. Vollgraff, 1917 -- “De tabella emptionis aetatis Traiani nuper in Frisia reperta”
New transcription by A.K. Bowman, R.S.O. Tomlin, and K.A. Worp, 2009 forthcoming -“Emptio bovis Frisica: the ‘Frisian ox sale’ reconsidered”
Discussing the Frisian stilus table
VRE aims
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Support Collaboration ●
as if a group of scholars sitting round the table
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works in a web browser
Customisable ●
choose and arrange the things you need
Project Bamboo planning ●
Funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ●
Increase efficiency in humanities projects through a common platform
Chris Mackay (Mellon): Mellon spends approx 2/3 of the cost of humanities projects on building and sustaining the technology to support them, and only 1/3 on scholarship. A shared platform which future projects adopt and extend could reverse those proportions.
Project Bamboo planning ●
2008 - 2010
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Many institutions involved ●
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“approximately 600 faculty, librarians, and technologists from 115 institutions” Mostly North American –
UK participants included Cambridge, Edinburgh and OU
Project Bamboo planning
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A series of workshops ●
Scholarly Practices
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Scholarly Narratives –
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how scholars perceive technology for their work
10 demonstrators –
small scale prototype projects
Bamboo Technology Project ●
Australian National University
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Indiana University
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Northwestern University
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Tufts University
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University of California, Berkeley
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University of Chicago
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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University of Maryland
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University of Oxford
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
Bamboo Technology Project ●
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Funded by Mellon ●
Not as generous as planning project!
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At least half effort from institutional contributions
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Fell fund have assisted with Oxford share
Three year project in two phases ●
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Phase 1: Oct 2010 – Mar 2012
Eventually to be sustained by consortium ●
Model similar to Sakai, Kuali
Bamboo Technology Project ●
All technology free to use in HE ●
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That developed by Bamboo available as Open Source May sell SaaS access to Bamboo for institutions who don't want to manage infrastructure themselves
Bamboo's plan covers a broad area ●
Split into several areas
Bamboo Services Platform ●
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Basic Platform Services ●
ID/Person profile
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Authentication
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Groups
Scholarly Services ●
Web services offering specific functionality
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Examples only in 1st phase: – –
Places in texts Morphological Analysis
Collections Interoperability ●
Provide consistent web services access ●
Crucial for Bamboo
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Tool developers work to one standard
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Persuade Collections to build to one interface
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Or build adaptors on top of existing interface
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Standard being developed based on CMIS ●
Content Management Interoperability Standard
Collections Interoperability ●
Initial Candidate collections ●
HathiTrust digital library –
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EEBO – TCP –
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Classical material
JSTOR –
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Early English Books Online
The Perseus Digital Library project –
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Mostly content from Google digitisation
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Journals
Workspaces ●
Store and organize sets of digital content
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Annotate and analyse content
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Collaboration with other scholars
Workspaces ●
Recognition that there won't be one single interface ●
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Institutions will want to fit in with local infrastructure
Phase one building several workspace implementations ●
Berkeley –
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Platform based on HubZero –
Platform for scientific collaboration
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Initially Nano-technology Based on Joomla CMS
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Platform based on Alfresco
OpenSocial –
Investigate portable components
Tools & Services Registry ● ●
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Associated with Workspaces Aggregate descriptions of technology and content Comments, ratings, and reviews
Corpora Space ●
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A more full featured set of tools for one community as demonstration In phase one, a design and exploration exercise CorporaCamps ●
Woodchipper
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visualization tool
Oxford Bamboo Activities ●
Port VRE-SDM tools to OpenSocial ●
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Partly done as part of VRE2 project
Deploy locally in OpenSocial container ●
Working with SURFnet to use container from COIN project
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Service available for Oxford users
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Also for use in external environments
Work with Bamboo partners to get OpenSocial working in their workspaces More tools, including to demo Bamboo Platform services
